Aden meaning

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A former British colony and protectorate of southern Arabia, part of South Yemen (now Yemen) since 1967.
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A city of southern Yemen on a peninsula projecting into the Gulf of Aden. One of the chief ports of southern Arabia since ancient times, it became a major trading and refueling station after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. Aden was the capital of South Yemen from 1967 until 1990.
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(place) Former British colony & protectorate in SW Arabia, on the Gulf of Aden: now part of the Republic of Yemen.
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(place) Seaport in this region: capital of the former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.
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(place) Gulf of the Arabian Sea, between the S coast of Arabia and Somalia in E Africa.
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Seaport and largest city of Yemen.
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Origin of aden

  • Place name ultimately from Akkadian (“plain, lowland”).

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Aden Sentence Examples

  • It has two important branches - at the south-west the Gulf of Aden, connecting with the Red Sea through the strait of Bab-elMandeb; and at the north-west the Gulf of Oman, connecting with the Persian Gulf.

  • In the west and south the principal routes, other than those already mentioned, are from Yambu to Medina, from Jidda to Mecca, Hodeda to Sana, Aden to Sana, and from Mukalla to the Hadramut valley.

  • After exploring Persia, and again residing for some time at Mecca, he made a voyage down the Red sea to Yemen, and travelled through that country to Aden.

  • In Arabia progress has been slower, although the surveys carried out by Colonel Wahab in connexion with the boundary determined in the Aden hinterland added more exact geographical Arabia.

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